Course Report · State, politics and democracy in Latin America
The international course “State, politics and democracy in Latin America” was promoted with the Puebla Group, the Observatory on Latin America of the New School, the Subrectoría de Extensión de la Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and the...
OLA research work presented at the 17th International Conference on Urban Health ´Transforming our Collective Urban Future: Learning from COVID-19´
Online: 6-8 July 2021 On July 7, 2021, the OLA project “COVID-19 in Real Time: Comparing the Struggle of Three Slums in Buenos Aires” was presented in the session “COVID-19, housing, and health: learning from pandemic responses from across the Americas” from the 17...
Open Call 2084 Imagined Futures from the South
Dear friends of OLA, We have great news, the first Museum of Futures is open! On April 28th, we launched the Museum of Futures as part of the 2084 Imagined Futures from the South program. With this we aim to mobilize thinking about the future of our cities...
FULBRIGHT LECTURES 2021 · CITY AND INFORMATION: INFORMATION IN A WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE CITIES
June 16 – 17, 2021 On June 16, Michael Cohen, co-director of the Latin American Observatory, participated in the panel “Cities in the new agenda urban: commitments and follow-up.” The conference was part of the 2021 Fulbright Lectures City and...
Event summary · Book Presentation: Inclusión y tensiones en la cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo. Dilemas de la integración socio espacial en Buenos Aires
On May 19, the Observatory on Latin America OLA and Café de las Ciudades presented the book Inclusion and tensions in the Matanza-Riachuelo basin. Dilemmas of socio-spatial integration in Buenos Aires (in Spanish). The authors of this book participated during the...
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Book Launch · The Walls of Santiago
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In this second discussion on the history of the future, academics from the Temporalidades del Futuro group: Lorena López, José Francisco Hernández, Lasse Hölck and Stefan Rinke, will participate: Comments will be offered by Martín Groisman and Margarita Gutman.